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Ten Tower
Stacking cups are one of the best toys ever made, and today they become a counting tower. Your child lines up cups or rings from smallest to biggest, then stacks them, counting each one on until the tower reaches ten.

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Sep 252 min read
Dress for the Place
Where are we going, and what should we wear? Today your little one gets a simple paper person and dresses them for different places: somewhere snowy, rainy, hot or sunny. It connects the weather, the places we go and how clothes help protect our bodies.

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Sep 242 min read
Sock Match
Matching socks is a real-life job, and today it becomes a letter game. You lay out letter cards face up in pairs. Your child hunts for the two that match, then "folds" them together like a pair of socks and puts them in the laundry basket.

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Sep 232 min read
Hand Span Investigation
Your hands are built-in measuring tools! Today your little one becomes a body scientist. They find out how many "hand spans" long everyday things are, then compare their hand to yours.

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Sep 222 min read
Ten Hands
No supplies needed today. Your child's own body is the counting tool. We count on fingers, then toes, then claps and stomps, all the way to ten.

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Sep 182 min read
Apple Stamping
An apple makes a perfect paint stamp, and it comes with a surprise inside. Today your little one dips apple halves in paint and prints them onto paper. Cut one apple the "wrong" way, and a star appears.

Mystee Ipong
Sep 172 min read
Rip Strip
This might be the easiest letter game there is, and toddlers love it because they're allowed to rip paper. You write letters down a long strip of paper. Your child tears between them, one letter per piece, then names or finds the letters they've torn off.

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Sep 162 min read
Build an Apple Tree
Today your little one becomes an engineer. The challenge: build a tree that can stand up on its own and hold apples. There's no right answer. The fun is in trying, watching it wobble and trying again.

Mystee Ipong
Sep 152 min read
Hunt Count
Hunt & Count turns your house into a treasure hunt. Your child gets simple prompts, like "Find 2 shoes!", then hunts for those everyday things and counts them out loud. It's the perfect way to end a week that started with the number 1.

Mystee Ipong
Sep 112 min read
My Face Collage
Today your child makes a portrait, but not with crayons. They'll hunt through old magazines for eyes, noses, mouths and hair, then glue them onto a paper plate to make a face. The results are usually hilarious, and that's the point.

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Sep 103 min read
Bag Draw
What's in the bag? In Bag Draw, your child reaches in, draws out one everyday object, and tells you all about it: what it is, whether they use it, and what it says about them. It's a guessing game and a conversation starter in one, and it fits All About Me week perfectly.

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Sep 92 min read
Fingerprint Investigation
Every person on Earth has fingerprints that belong only to them, and toddlers find that amazing. Today your little one becomes a detective: they collect fingerprints from everyone in the house, then look closely to see whose is whose.

Mystee Ipong
Sep 83 min read
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